The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-12

ules alone the sooner you will get to work salts
factorily under the law. You will soon be COM
PEELED to do so. Why not act like sensible men,
and meet the inevitable, and remember that the
government of the United States says you must
stand alone. and not combineP
There seems to be but little doubt as to the
building of the New Albany & Vincennes road
the parties behind the enterprise have the
money push tho work. 1t is to be thy
local road, and will run from Jasper to French
Lick. Paoli, Cham bersburg, Hardinsburg. Fred
ericksburg, Palmyra, Greenville and Galena
and to New Albany. The idea is to reach as
many towns possible between Jasper and
New Albany, rather than the construction of a
short line it is the local business that will be
looked to for support of the road.
The managers of the American Express Com
pany have become somewhat disturbed over Re-
celver Hammond letting the Baltimore q Ohio
Express Company use the l., D. & S. as one of
the link roads to reach st. Louis, and have asked
Receiver Hammond to annul the contract, which
he fiat-footedly refused to do If the American
express is not satisfied with their arrangement
with the l., D. & S., which is to pay $50 day
for hauling their express matter over the road,
the American doing the way business, there are
three other companies ready to take the con-
tract off the American Express Company's
hands.
G. J. Grammar, traffic manager of the Evans
vile e. Terre Haute and other roads in the Mack
ey system, has issued the following notice:
'Unless otherwise advised, all rates. tariff or
cial or reduced freight rates, between any two
| stations these lines that are in different
| States, or between any point on these lines and
| any point on any foreign or connecting line that
| is in another State, will be void on and after
April l, 1887. Tariffs will be prepared to con-
| form to the interstatecommerce law and furn-
ished you as early as possible that will govern
| on and after April l."
The Pacific Express Company, which now
| reaches indianapolis over the Indianapolis, Peru
/ q Chicago road, has asked Receiver Hammond.
of the indianapolis. Decatur & Springfield road,
! to allow them to carry their Indianapolis busl
| ness over the l.. d. 81 S. AS the American ex
| press and the Baltimore q Ohio express both
| work over this road, Receiver Hammond is in
| something of quandary to know what to do.
| The Pacific company have proposed to the b. q
o. that they work no further west tnan over the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis, and at In
| dianapolls turn over their business to the Ia
cihc for st. Louis and the w est.
President Laying, of the Bee-line, General
| Manager Beach and several subordinate officers
| arrived in the city at4 p M. yesterday. and this
| morning start westward at 7:30 President
| Laying will be treated to somewhat OF a surprise
to-day. as he has not been over the Indianapolis
g. St Louis road for some years, or at least since
the Decline management rebuilt the road. The
| party will to-day pass over 265 miles of as good
road, physically often be found in one
stretch. President Laying wisely has but little
| to say about his plans for the future. After
once passing over the several divisions and In
speeding the property generally he will be better
prepared to talk.
Col. Joseph Hill, general superintendent of the
| Vandalia when lad of fourteen left his East
| ern home, and he relates pleasing incident in
his coming West which is brought more strik-
ingly to his mind by the death of Henry Ward
Beecher. At Cincinnati the Colonel took the
same boat down the river on which Mr.. Beecher
first came to Indianapolis At Madison both
took the NJ. & l. train for Ednburg, the Madi-
son & Indianapolis road at that time being COM
pleted only to Edinburg Colonel Hill says that
just after the train left Dupont Mr.. Beecher
climbed over the tank to the engineer ard per-
suaded the engineer to let him run the engine
for several miles, and his return to the car he
was in high elee over the accomplishment
The relative merits of English and American
locomotives which has been occupying much
attention in the English press, has lately been
discussed in series of articles that appeared in
the Mechanical World, Of Manchester, which
were remarkable for their fairness, good sense
and knowledge of the details Of construction OF
the American locomotive. The writer takes
the ground that if the American type of loco
motive is better adapted for operating colonia
railways than locomotives of the English type
it is the duty of British builders to supply their
customers with the former style of engine. w.
H. Booth, q wellknown railway mechanical en-
; | gineer who has had considerable experience il
the locomotive department of railways in Aus
tralia, where English and American locomotives
were working together, is editor of the Mechan
ical World. and the articles referred to no doub
represent his views.